Jr. Pac-Man

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Jr. Pac-Man
Studio Bally Midway
Publisher Bally Midway
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1983
platform Arcade , Atari 2600 , DOS , C64
genre Maze
Game mode Single player
Jr. Pac-Man on the Atari 2600

Jr. Pac-Man is an arcade game from 1983 that was published by the American game development company Bally Midway . It is based on the Pac-Man game principle, but it is not part of the officially released series of Pac-Man games, such as: B. Baby Pac-Man . This game was produced without the consent of Namco , which owns the rights to the Pac-Man character.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Jr. Pac-Man is very similar to the original Pac-Man. In this game, the maze is three times as wide as the visible playing field and a virtual camera tracks Junior Pac Man to the left and right when the character threatens to disappear from the visible screen. This can mean that not all ghosts can always be seen in the visible playing field. There are a total of seven different mazes in the whole game and none of these levels has, as is usual in other Pac-Man games, tunnels through which the player can quickly switch from one side of the playing field to the other. Six instead of four energy pills are distributed in the individual labyrinths.

Ports of the game

Because the arcade game was not particularly popular, only ports for the Atari 2600 game console, DOS PCs and the Commodore 64 were developed. In 1997 another version for the Atari 400/800 was released . Plans for a port to the Atari 5200 were not implemented because of the video game crash in 1983; however, a prototype exists.

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